re: Avatar 3D - I can't see most 3D in movies. Something about my eyes and brain just don't see most movies in 3D. I've been to multiple 3D movies and the only one that worked was Dredd. I've tried the glasses, the 3DS, layered...it just doesn't display to me for some reason. It just gives me a headache. When I've tried games like Elite: Dangerous with an Oculus, I just get motion-sick and everything is blurry.
Does anyone else have that happen with 3D multimedia?
While cool, ray-tracing is not a thing most games support. It could be a game-changer, but buying v1 of any new tech is a poorly thought-out idea. The most immediate example is VR: the 900-series was "built for VR", but the 1000-series was the series that actually did it well. Some credible sites (extremetech, tomshardware, pcgamesn) are saying to expect no more than a 20% increase in speeds, and maybe only 10%. Example: 2070 being somewhere around the 1080. Given how little information Nvidia has stated about how well it will perform over current-gen, I'd be very leery of their gains. If they were high, they'd be touting them from the room-tops, but Nvidia isn't saying anything.
Furthermore, in order to see wide-ranging adoption of ray-tracing in games, we need to see how AMD responds, since AMD handles the console-side of things. Mainstream adoption relies on them buying into this as well, because consoles sell games.
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